Plural of outlier

Forms of outlier

Outliers in a sentence

• Such outcrops of younger rock, entirely surrounded by older beds, are called outliers or onliers.1997, Ruud Weijermars, Structural Geology and Map Interpretation, page 80. From the entry onlier
• Although influential cases thus have extreme values on one or more of the variables, they can be onliers rather than outliers.2014, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Family Policy Outcomes, page 191. From the entry onlier
• Upon removal of the mispunch and reanalysis, two other points in this data set emerge as possible outliers.2009, William K. Michener, James W. Brunt, Ecological Data: Design, Management and Processing, page 83. From the entry mispunch
• In addition, both adaptive and robust methods downweight outliers.2004, Thomas W. O'Gorman, Applied Adaptive Statistical Methods: Tests of Significance and Confidence Intervals, SIAM, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry downweight
• Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times…. From the entry gout

Meaning of outlier

1. noun A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
2. noun An exception.
3. noun A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.

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Questions about the plural of outlier

What is the plural of outlier?

The plural of outlier is outliers.

Is outlier countable?

Outlier is a countable noun.